The practice of Equanimity in Leadership (and personal life) have invaluable effect on your mindset, the one of others around you and is an effective tool to manage stress.

Find out why on this week’s Leadership Monday’s guide.

“The space of awareness allows every content of mind to be or not to be, to come and go. Thoughts are just thoughts, sounds are just sounds, situations are just situations, and people are just being themselves” _ Rich Hanson, PH.D

If assumptions were true, your leadership skills would be as good as it gets.

Have fun with this workout over the summer and I will be back on September 10th with a different flavor of this leadership minute.

“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don’t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don’t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sort of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.” _ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

You will want to watch, especially if you manage people, lead teams (or aspire to) or simply believe that constant training of your soft skills keeps you sharp relevant and current through time. I never met any successful high performers who stopped training and revisiting the things on would thing they “already know”.

And as Shunryu Suzuki said: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are a few.”